History
Separating the Faith from the Faithful in Islam
The Entire Appeal of Muhammad’s Call to the Arabs of His Time Lay in Its Perfect Compatibility with Their Tribal Mores
Trump May Believe Transferring Palestinians from Gaza Will Bring Peace, but the History of Population Transfer Suggests Such Expectations Are Unrealistic
Protest Music, Islamism, and the Last Days of Egypt’s Sadat
The Monstrous Blackmail That Israel Agreed to Pay to the Gaza Jihad Also Feeds on the Psychological Torment of Those Who Have Returned
The Conflict in Libya Is an Example of Internal Factions Being Manipulated and Supported by External Resources and External Leaders as Well
Muhammad Detested Dogs, to the Point of Calling for Their Arbitrary Extermination
[T]he Whole Complex Process of European Expansion and Empire … Has Its Roots in the Clash of Islam and Christendom
The Kurds in the Iranian Part of Kurdistan Who Have Fought for Their Rights in the Region the Longest Have Been Largely Ignored by the U.S. And the West
Inside Syria’s Ancient Capital, a Lone Jewish Guardian Watches over Abandoned Properties While Islamist Rulers Patrol the Rubble of Historic Synagogues
The Three Suspects Allegedly Wanted to Avenge the Arab-Berber Troops Defeated in 732 by Charles Martel at the Battle of Poitiers
From the Sykes-Picot Agreement to Abu Mohamed Al-Julani’s Lightning Revolution
It Encapsulates the Misrepresentations and Errors of History That Have Caused the West to Become Clueless About the Roots of Its Conflict with the Islam
The Legacy of Oum Kalthoum Remains One of the Most Spellbinding Musical Phenomena of the Twentieth Century
If It Looks Like a Duck, Walks Like a Duck, and Quacks Like a Duck, Then It’s Probably a Duck
Former Nun Karen Armstrong’s Revisionist History Whitewashes Centuries of Muslim Conquests
If Fake News Is a ‘Threat to Democracy,’ What About Fake History?
White Women Were and Continue to Be Seen as Sexually Promiscuous by Nature — Essentially ‘Provoking’ Muslim Men Into Lusting After and Raping Them
The Kurdish Lack of Leaders Who Can Cast Tribal Interests Aside and Rise to the Occasion Hurts Their Cause, Perhaps Fatally
After Years on the Defensive, Israel Is Now on the March Against Those Proxies